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Sharpening the Becker-Stark Inequalities
Journal of Inequalities and Applications volume 2010, Article number: 931275 (2010)
Abstract
In this paper, we establish a general refinement of the Becker-Stark inequalities by using the power series expansion of the tangent function via Bernoulli numbers and the property of a function involving Riemann's zeta one.
1. Introduction
Steckin [1] (or see Mitrinovic [2, 3.4.19, page 246]) gives us a result as follows.
Theorem 1.1 (see [1, Lemma ]).
If , then
Later, Becker and Stark [3] (or see Kuang [4, 5.1.102, page 248]) obtain the following two-sided rational approximation for .
Theorem 1.2.
Let , then
Furthermore, and are the best constants in (1.2).
In fact, we can obtain the following further results.
Theorem 1.3.
Let , then
Furthermore, and are the best constants in (1.3).
In this paper, in the form of (1.2) and (1.3) we shall show a general refinement of the Becker-Stark inequalities as follows.
Theorem 1.4.
Let , and let be a natural number. Then
holds, where , and
where are the even-indexed Bernoulli numbers.
Furthermore, and are the best constants in (1.4).
2. Four Lemmas
Lemma 2.1.
The function is decreasing, where is Riemann's zeta function.
Proof.
is equivalent to the function , which is decreasing.
Lemma 2.2 (see [5, Theorem ]).
Let be Riemann's zeta function and the even-indexed Bernoulli numbers. Then
Lemma 2.3 (see [6, 1.3.1.4 (1.3)]).
Let . Then
Lemma 2.4.
Let and . Then , where
Proof.
By Lemma 2.3, we have
Since is decreasing by Lemma 2.1, it follows that
From Lemma 2.2, we get
which implies that for .
3. Proofs of Theorems
Proof of Theorem 1.4.
Let
Then
By Lemma 2.4, we have for , and is decreasing on .
At the same time, = by (3.1), and by (3.2), so and are the best constants in (1.4).
Proof of Theorem 1.3.
Let in Theorem 1.4; we obtain that and . Then the proof of Theorem 1.3 is complete.
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Zhu, L., Hua, J. Sharpening the Becker-Stark Inequalities. J Inequal Appl 2010, 931275 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/931275
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